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Technology Stocks : COMS & the Ghost of USRX w/ other STUFF -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: drmorgan who wrote (17531)	10/23/1998 9:58:00 AM
From: Moonray	Respond to of 22053

Derek and Scrapps, some USB URLs: imac2day.com usbnews.com o~~~ O

To: drmorgan who wrote (17531)	10/23/1998 1:11:00 PM
From: Scrapps	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 22053

Derek, as for drivers from 3Com/USR...what a nightmere. To upgrade my ext. voice Sportster to V.90, I had to spend a huge amount of time searching and emailing. Finally I got a reply from an engineer who listed out the steps for me to download the code. Was told the information from their site was incorrect (told them that months before) and I had to first lie to the upgrade wizard by telling it I was in another country. Then I was to enter a phone number...given to me in the email. At that point I was able to download the correct code and upgrade my modem. Don't know if they ever fixed the problem on their site...so it's possible others are experiencing the same misery I enjoyed. Btw, With my new DELL PC it has a serial number, when I go to their web site support area it reads the serial number (from a cookie I guess) and tells you every driver available for that PC. To download a new or updated driver you click on the icon next to it. Pretty darn simple. Even for the things I added myself I first go to the Dell site to see what's available. I recently upgraded to Win98 and the Dell site told me what drivers to upgrade first...whether I'd bought the Win98 upgrade from Dell or not. Micron also has drivers, but not anywhere as simple or complete as Dell. Also, the Win98 software has a feature where you can click on it and it goes to a MSFT upgrade site, there it tells you if you have all the current fixes. Plus it has a simplified driver site. I'll have a USB! :o)